wallpaper

wallpaper

was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made other papers in small designs. Outlines were block-printed, and the color was filled in with brush or stencil. The flock technique of printing designs with an adhesive and sprinkling with fine bits of wool or silk was probably first adapted to wallpaper c.1620 in France, but by the 18th cent. England had become the principal manufacturer. Sets of painted Chinese paper were imported in the 17th cent. and by the 18th had become highly popular and were widely imitated. In France, Jean Papillon established in 1688 the first large wallpaper factory, where he made matching designs that would be continuous when pasted. In the 18th cent. paper was glued into continuous rolls before printing. Wallpaper was manufactured in the American colonies from the mid-18th cent. Colonial homes displayed various scenic and pictorial papers, often with tropical themes. The mid-19th cent. brought modern printing on roll paper, mass production, and decadence in design. The English Pre-Raphaelite artists, particularly William MorrisMorris, William,1834–96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer. He has long been considered one of the great Victorians and has been called the greatest English designer of the 19th cent......Click the link for more information., promoted a renaissance in wallpaper designs, and the 20th cent. has seen its fulfillment in England, France, and the United States. American designers have revived interest in landscape papers and have greatly developed frieze and panel papers through the medium of hand block printing.

Wallpaper

A decorative wall and ceiling finish composed of printed sheets glued to the surface; wood pulp paper was the kind first used.

What does it mean when you dream about wallpaper?

A dream that focuses on wallpaper could be calling attention to the surface appearance of something, or our attempts to cover something up.

wallpaper

[′wȯl‚pā·pər]

(computer science)

The design or image used as a computer monitor background.

wallpaper

Paper, or paper-like material, usually decorated in colors, which is pasted or otherwise affixed to walls or ceilings of rooms.

wallpaper

(1)

A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or a
transcript, especially a file containing a transcript of all
or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for
such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as
evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows).

The term is now rare, especially since other systems have
developed other terms for it (e.g. PHOTO on TWENEX).
However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, so
perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably
originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end
transcript files were ":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with default
file "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path delimiter).

wallpaper

wallpaper

A pattern or picture used to represent the desktop surface (screen background) in a graphical user interface (GUI). Although many wallpaper options come with each operating system, such as random images from the user's folder, any single image can be used. Many cellphones allow custom wallpapers for their screen backgrounds.

Live Wallpaper Live wallpaper displays some moving object or continuous scene change for people who like the glitz of animation. However, in a portable device, live wallpaper is a battery drain.

Why Cover a Desktop with Wallpaper? Years ago, someone who had too many sleepless nights programming must have thought it a great analogy because a screen desktop is vertical like a wall. With Windows XP, Microsoft decided to end the mystery and just call it "Background." See desktop.

With the arrival of the do-it-yourself era in the 1960s, Henkel analysed the new market trends and requirements and developed dedicated products and systems such as the wallpaper pasting machine, the dust-free wallpaper granulate and Metylan direct control.

Some interior designers are advocating the inclusion of "feature walls" (where just one wall in a room is papered), while hand-painted papers are making a comeback and the work of new young wallpaper designers is being championed.

Finnish forest products company Stora Enso Oyj said on Tuesday (24 August) that in order to develop its Wolfshack Mill in Germany, it had signed an agreement with the Cham Paper Group for the transfer of technical know-how and marketing information from Cham's Hunsfos Mill in Norway permitting production and marketing of Cham's wallpaper base products.

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